Friday, February 10, 2012
- Commission to record Ijaz's statement via video link
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
- Jamaat Ali Shah rejects treason charges
- Letter sent to BlackBerry Company: DAG
- PM will appear before SC on Feb 13, confirms Aitzaz
- India test-fires ballistic missile interceptor
- MQM seeks SC notice over Bilour's interview
- Russia proposes bilateral extradition treaty with US
- Karachi violence claims seven lives
- SC rejects PM Gilani's appeal
The Nation in print for Monday, September 29, 2008
Front Page
No orders to shoot down US copters: Zardari
NEW YORK - President Asif Ali Zardari said Sunday that Pakistan would try Al-Qaeda's top leaders - Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri - in Pakistan if they were captured, but they could also be turned over to the United States. "(W)e can hand them (bin Laden, al-Zawahiri) over, (or) we ...
President's return home delayed
NEW YORK (Online) - President Asif Ali Zardari's scheduled return to home was delayed due to some technical fault in the plane of ...
US House approves India N-deal
WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives approved an agreement on Saturday allowing the United States to sell nuclear ...
Gunmen kidnap Polish engineer
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Gunmen kidnapped a Polish engineer in Attock on Sunday, shooting dead his two drivers and a security guard ...
International
UN Security Council reaffirms nuclear demands on Iran
UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council voted 15-0 Saturday to adopt a resolution reaffirming demands that Iran curb its uranium ...
Pakistan Academy whitewash Kenya in one-day series
NAIROBI - The visiting Pakistan Cricket Academy whitewashed hosts Kenya in the three match one-day series when they won the third ...
Pakistan likely to host Kenya next years
NAIROBI - Tom Tikolo, the CEO of Cricket Kenya has said here that he was interested to send the Kenyan etam to Pakistan in coming ...
Ahmed, Anwer banned for one match
NAIROBI - Pakistan's two promising young cricketers Ahmed Shahzad and Anwer Ali were not included in third and the final ...
Kenyan skipper Tikolo awaiting offer from any Indian league
NAIROBI - Kenyan cricket team captain Steve Tikolo said here Sunday he was interested in playing in the Indian Premier Cricket ...
PCA team to leave for Karachi Monday night
NAIROBI - Pakistan Cricket Academy team will leave here Monday night after a gruelling 40-day tour to Zimbabwe and Kenya. During ...
Roddick, Jankovic win China Open titles
BEIJING (AFP) - Andy Roddick held off a fierce challenge from Israeli underdog Dudi Sela to win the China Open final Sunday as ...
Italian cycling great Bettini to retire after title defence
VARESE (Italy) (AFP) - One of cycling's modern day greats, Paolo Bettini of Italy, has confirmed he will retire after the final ...
Obama making strides on electoral map
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Just five weeks from the election day, Democrat Barack Obama is making ground in battleground states and ...
No interim peace deal with Israel: Saudi FM
UNITED NATIONS (Agencies) - Arab nations will totally reject any partial or interim solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
Sudan forces kill six tourist kidnappers
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese forces have killed six bandits who kidnapped 19 European tourists and their Egyptian guides in a remote ...
Iran food prices surged nearly 50 per cent in September
TEHRAN (AFP) - The rise in food prices accelerated in Iran in September, when the cost of a basket of 45 staple items showed a ...
Iran atomic agency chief not to attend IAEA meeting
TEHRAN (AFP) - The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholamreza Aghazadeh will not take part in the UN nuclear watchdog's ...
Twin vehicle bombings kill 13 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 13 people were killed and 36 wounded in two vehicle bombings in the west of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, ...
Sri Lanka unrest kills 18
COLOMBO (AFP) - Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and rebels left 17 dead in the country's war-ravaged north, while a suicide ...
Somali pirates demand $20m
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter carrying military weapons defiantly demanded 20 million ...
Politics
11 injured in Quetta blasts
QUETTA - At least eleven people sustained injuries, two of them critical, in two separate bomb blasts in Quetta on Sunday. The ...
Kohat Tunnel opened for traffic
PESHAWAR - Authorities on Sunday opened the Pak-Japan Friendship Tunnel and Indus Highway for all kinds of traffic after a break ...
US economic crisis: Breakthrough reached in talks on bailout
WASHINGTON - US Congressional leaders and the Bush administration have reached an agreement to set up a $700-billion government ...
Bomber kills 6 in Spin Boldak
KANDAHAR (AFP) - A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near two police vehicles in a border town in southern ...
6 deer stolen from Jallo
LAHORE - Six hog deer worth Rs 150,000 have been stolen from Jallo Wildlife Park in the wee hours of Sunday. One deer has been ...
Zardari unhappy over Sindh ministers' work
KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed dissatisfaction over the poor performance of Sindh cabinet ministers who ...
Top Afghan lady cop shot dead
KANDAHAR (AFP) - Taliban gunmen shot dead the most high-profile female police officer in Afghanistan on Sunday as she left her ...
TTP Swat announces ceasefire
PESHAWAR - Keeping in view the sanctity of Eid-ul-Fitr and Ramazan-ul-Mubarak, spokesman of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat ...
Gilani reviews food security
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired a meeting at the Prime Minister's House here to review agenda of the ...
Cop, militant killed in encounter
BANNU - At least two persons, including a policeman and militant, were killed on Sunday in an encounter between militants and ...
12 die in IHK violence
SRINAGAR (Agencies) - An Indian soldier and 11 Mujahideen were killed in fighting in Kashmir after unseasonably cold weather ...
Entertainment
Scarlett ties the knot with Reynolds
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has married actor Ryan Reynolds in a hush-hush ceremony in Canada, according to reports. ...
Redford mourns loss of 'real friend' Newman
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Robert Redford mourned the death of Paul Newman, describing his former co-star as "a real friend" whose life ...
China plans manned trip to moon after successful mission
BEIJING (AFP) - China set its sights Sunday on a manned trip to the moon and a space station after completing a historic mission ...
Genetic driver of narcolepsy pinpointed
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists in Japan have identified a genetic mutation linked to narcolepsy, a disease that can cause someone to ...
Kate Moss 'lipstick' self-portrait sells for 33,600
LONDON (AFP) - A self-portrait by British supermodel Kate Moss, drawn with lipstick and marked with her lip prints, was picked up ...
Acoustic communication in deep-sea fish
AN international research team studying sound production in deep-sea fishes has found that cusk-eels use several sets of muscles ...
Islamabad
Only five Eid Special Trains from 29 to 30th
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Railways has failed to keep its legacy of running more than a dozen Eid Special Trains on Eidul ...
Call for awareness regarding environmental issues
ISLAMABAD- Speakers at a seminar "Menace of Pollution" held here on Sunday highlighted the need of mass awareness regarding ...
Special security plan for twin cities chalked out
RAWALPINDI - Security has been beefed up and put on high alert in the city for Eidul Fitr , which is likely to fall on October 2 ...
Delay in aid to land Pakistan in trouble: PEW
ISLAMABAD -Pakistan Economy Watch has said that ''Friends of Pakistan'' should have announced a bailout package immediately and ...
High prices mar Eid shopping
RAWALPINDI - As Eidul Fitr is approaching the shopkeepers in various markets of the city have started looting the general public ...
Karachi
Sadqa-e-fitr allows needy, poor to share joys of Eid
ISLAMABAD (APP) - Sadqa-e-fitr (also known as fitrana) is an amount of charity - in the form of staple foodstuffs - that ...
KESC disburses whopping salaries
KARACHI - The new management of the KESC has got its first attractive salaries worth millions of rupees, reliable sources told ...
Sindh government to set up shelter homes for women
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Women Development, Tauqir Fatima Bhutto, has said that shelter homes for women will be set up next ...
HVS observes 27th Ramazan as Thanksgiving Day
KARACHI - Hamdard Village School, while celebrating 27th Ramadan as Thanksgiving Day and Independence Day celebrated a function ...
Where is Baitullah Mehsud?
KARACHI - The long disappearance of the Ameer of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, from the scene has raised ...
Ishrat takes notice of girls' colleges issue
KARACHI - Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has taken serious notice of the education department's decision to hand over the ...
Transporters raise fares amid Eid rush
KARACHI (PPI) - In wake of heavy rush of passengers at terminals of inter-city buses, going to their homeland to celebrate, the ...
Lahore
Aghas Assad achieves success at Royal Palm
LAHORE - Young Agha Asad showed that he is fast developing into a golfer of maturity with an impressive victory in the Ramadan ...
Atta price to shoot up again
LAHORE - The flour price in the open market will surge to Rs 100 per 20-kg bag during the next couple of days as the Punjab ...
Power cuts again start stinging citizens
LAHORE - The power outages have once again began to sting the citizens after a short period of nearly 20 days, as a series of ...
Firm blacklisted on Chief Minister's orders
LAHORE - On the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Communication & Works Department has ...
Departmental store gutted in Allama Iqbal Town
LAHORE - Fire broke out at a noted Raheem Departmental Store in Allama Iqbal Town due to short-circuiting in power supply, as a ...
Mark Independence Day on Ramazan 27: Nizami
LAHORE - Pakistan was made in the name of Islam and to highlight this fact it is necessary that Independence Day should also be ...
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